Exorcists in Poland have warned shoppers to be on their guard against the forces of darkness after a supermarket priced a packet of goats' cheese 6.66 zlotys.

Appearing in a catalogue promoting a "French Week" at the Lidl supermarket chain, and without a decimal point, the price, for the exorcists, bore too great a similarity to 666, the number of the beast recorded in the Bible.

The fact that it adorned a cheese with an image of a goat on it exacerbated their fears as goats also with come with their own satanic symbolism.

"I can clearly see the sign of Satan and the horns," said exorcist Elzbieta Gas. "It is significant because there are people out there who can feel evil energy, and this is for them.

"In the world there is a struggle between the forces of light and darkness, and here you can see that evil prevailed," she added.

Father Eugeniusz Wiraszka, another exorcist, said that if the cheese's price upset or bothered people they should "try to block it out," although he conceded that pricing the cheese 6.66zl (£1.32) might just be a "marketing trick".

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Lidl, which has 500 shops across Poland, denied their goat's cheese prices had anything to do with the occult.

"The prices and products offered by Lidl stores have nothing to do with symbolism," said Patrycja Kaminska, a Lidl spokeswoman. "Along with goat's cheese price Lidl, for example, is also offering snails stuffed with walnuts and herbs for 7.77 zl."

The goat's cheese joins an auspicious list of people and items some devoutly religious people in Poland have labelled as satanic or evil.

Last month the Warsaw diocese of Praga issued a leaflet warning Catholics of the spiritual dangers and evil lurking in the Star Wars films, Indiana Jones, Bruce Springsteen and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.